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I've been a heroin user for 2 years now. I'm smoking half a g a day, sometimes I can make it last 2. I've finally gotten out of my 5 year abusive relationship and I've been getting help for my trauma. The only thing left is to kick this addiction away but after working so hard on getting/keeping my job, restoring my relationships w/ loved ones and becoming a middle class citizen. I cannot seem to find THEE best solution. I've kicked the drug cold turkey once about 9 years ago, I haven't tried any other method. I just want to be able to keep up with my life as well as to finally get rid of this problem. I cannot miss work and my family believes that I'm sober. Any and all advice is welcomed, I'm open to all and any treatment, like I said I simply want to be able to keep up w/ work/school/relationships while getting the help I deserve.
Footnote: I'm on foot and I don't mind letting my family know(I live w/ them) about my relapse but I do not want to tell them about until I have a plan or options in mind.
Thank you for any advice as well as the time you took to read this.

I'm addicted to a large amount of a fentanyl analogue. Essentially the equivalent of 15 bundles of dope per day speaking in terms of potency.
I got myself into outpatient treatment because I know I need help, but 16mg suboxone in full blown withdrawls doesn't even begin to start to take the edge off. It literally has NO effect on me.
My very experienced counselor knows how serious fentanyl is, and I've explained that subs won't help.
I was sober for several years before relapsing, I used to shoot heroin so I'm no stranger to opioid withdrawls, but the w/d from this substance is from another world. I can handle dope withdrawls (as unpleasant as they are) but I want to die within hours of my most recent fent dose. It has a short half life, I wake up in full blown w/d every morning worse than anything I have ever experienced as a hardcore junkie years ago.
I'm also fairly successful and have a job and bills I have to maintain. I also manage a large department and don't get the luxury of taking time off from work.
The 2 times I had to go several days between doses, I had never wanted to die so bad. Even though opioid w/d can't kill you, I wouldn't be surprised if the dehydration from the inability to drink water without violently throwing up for several days will. I literally hallucinate in agony when I try to detox. It's beyond hell on earth.
My outpatient therapist wants me to go to detox, followed by inpatient treatment. I don't think the detox facilities understand the severity of what I'm hooked on.
I truly believe that Methadone is my only hope. I'm also probably the most high functioning addict you've ever met, nobody knows about my secret despite the monkey on my back.
If I could stop the physical addiction, I believe that I could easily go the rest of my life without touching another drug as long as I live. I hate this drug, I want to be sober more than anything else on earth. I don't get high from this shit anymore, all it does is prevents debilitating withdrawals.
How do I convince my therapist that I need a methadone clinic?
Nobody seems to understand that I wouldn't even consider methadone if it wasn't the better of 2 horrible options. I need something powerful enough to allow me to function and I;m happy to have the clinic wean me off as wuickly as humanly possible.

Plan on tapering off. Cannot afford to go to internist any longer( self pay) ,but have enough Subs that are still not past expiration date ,that I can get by for a few months(was not taking them regularly since I was still using opiates at one point,as well as taking lesser dosage than prescribed,since I'd usually have an issue getting the script filled them on time). On for 3 years, taking regularly for a little over a year,when I found out I was pregnant and switched from suboxone to subutex. I have gone down from 16 mg, down to 1 mg in the past year, for past 3 weeks. Taking .5 when I wake up and another .5 late afternoon. I of course feel better after the 2nd dosage. Still feel lethargic, depressed, achy in between. If any one has any advice on a tapering schedule that worked for them, w/o the help of a doctor and any remedies that helped ease w/d. I am almost out of 2mg tablets, so I have a bunch of 8mg, maybe 45-60. The biggest issue is timing this, since I am a single mother, with a 1 year old at home. I am not working at the moment, I do have people around. My parents work the weekdays, but home nights and weekends, as well as my grandmother who lives close by. I am not on any other medications. Don't know if anti-depressants would help. I am not concerned too much about relapsing( been clean off H since 09/2016, it is the w/d and lingering effects I fear. It seems that from everything I've read and everyone I've spoke with, it seems to be a very different time frame for everyone. I just want to ease my mind, know what exactly I am in for. I've never tapered off, only once did I go cold turkey for about 16 days off 12 mg, very bad idea, went back on because I couldn't take the w/d and relapsed on top of that. Help!!!

Hello all, I have recently dropped below the 2mg mark (started at 16) and I have really been feeling alot different now that I've gone below 2. It's really weird because from 16 down to 2 I felt almost no change. I was always one steady mood. Now that I'm on 2 I feel more like a rollercoaster, I can feel myself "coming down" towards the end of the day and especially in the morning before I take my dose. I am starting to get a taste of the person I could be when I'm completely sober - and it's frightening. I don't know this person. I started my descent into the life I've been living for the past 9 years when I was 16, before I fully developed into the adult I am now. I'm terrified that I'm not going to like this new person. I'm such a coward, that I have been purposefully taking more than 2mg, just so that I don't have to face this fear.

Im coming up on 30 soon. I had a awful heroin habit and that lasted about 6 years everyday. I was a functional addict, had a place gf everything i should need. I do backbreaker concrete. Labor. Because of this i have constant pain. I tryed methadone for a year,but i decided bupe treatment would be better. The switch was hell but totally worth it. I ge t my script 1 x a month. No heroine relapses in years. I fell my responsibility s keep me occupied

I'm currently 8 days off a nasty Heroin habit. I used suboxone for the first 3 days of withdrawal which made my recovery a lot stronger than it's ever been. I still have crazy cravings and everyday anxiety which stops me from being active, would taking a 2mg strip of suboxone reset my PAWS timeline? Assuming I don't take any more the next day.

R/suboxone leaves a lot to be desired. Clearly the mods (if there are any) don't care about the people (probably cops) illegally trying to sell subs and what-have-you right out in the open. It makes me mad because I didn't join the subreddit to break the damn law.

Anyway, I hope we can make this into something good and a useful tool for people who are looking for information about suboxone.

I'm a 26 year old male living in the United States. I've had opiate problems for years and went through methadone treatment before recently getting into a Suboxone program. I'm blessed to be alive and still be part of my little girls life. I have degenerative disc disease and have a titanium plate and 4 screws in my back plus I've had 2 other minor back surgeries in the past year. I just want a good community where everyone wants to help each other and be there for others. I look forward to getting to know everyone who stops by and I hope we can all make a difference in some way or another. Thanks for giving this place and me a chance.

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